Really? I know is this anecdotal (horrible word to spell---who came up with it?), but I see way more Macbooks out there in coffee shops than Chromebooks. Most teens I know dream of having a Mac something, not a Chromebook. I don't think it's unwise to target that market. It's certainly a real..uh thread to MS.
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Really? I know is this anecdotal (horrible word to spell---who came up with it?), but I see way more Macbooks out there in coffee shops than Chromebooks. Most teens I know dream of having a Mac something, not a Chromebook. I don't think it's unwise to target that market. It's certainly a real..uh thread to MS.
The only advantage that Surface Book has is the touchscreen, but I not sure if I would need a touchscreen in a laptop mode. sure, touchscreen is great for tablet mode but not so much for laptop mode. my arm just ache while using it.
i would like to have some iOS app on OS X.
i would like to have some iOS app on OS X.
Another tech ad from an American company using a British voice. They sure do sound smarter than us!
I guess that's a personal choice or even a personality variation then. Personally I sort of agree, I too would want an SUV even though I will almost never take it off a paved road and I don't have a big family. However, that choice is influenced by other aspects of the car (comfort and trunk size primarily). If an SUV was no more comfortable or had no larger trunk than a sedan, I would probably not buy an SUV. Similarly though, the other than the touch-screen and detachability aspect of the Surface line, it's not much different than a Macbook.
Also cars are sort of an exception, that aspect of car-buying has been studied before, and it seems the conclusion was that cars are unique in this regard. I think the majority of the population doesn't view computer buying that same way.
People tend to pick cars that will cover 99% of their use cases, even though they can save a ton of money if they were to buy a car that covered just 90% of their use cases. But people don't buy anything else like this: For example, people don't buy giant industrial-size dishwashers because they plan on hosting a big thanksgiving dinner every other year, where the rest of the time it's a small family of four using it. There are plenty of other examples of this - people tend to buy only what they need the majority of the time. The biggest exception is cars though.
I'm not sure if people buy laptops more like cars, or more like everything else. I bet it's the latter.
Hardware is nothing, software is everything. Even bare BIOS is better than windows.
Not sure if you’re talking about Macs or the Surface.
When I read chipchen's comment I replace "thread" with "path". It appears that you are replacing "thread" with "threat".
Based on context I think he was trying to say that someone isn't likely to migrate from a Mac to a Surface but someone might be convinced to migrate from a Chromebook to a Surface.
I kind of think it doesn’t matter.
In general, if the form factor and price doesn’t change too much I’d rather go for a device that does it all. Even if it does something badly. I have an internet enabled TV, I haven’t used it yet but it’s there if I need to. I actually have a touchscreen laptop for work, (an awful Dell), and I use that touch on probably 0-5% of occasions that I work with it. I’d rather have the ability to do it than not at all and be able to do something like sign on the screen even if it’s a bit of a bind.
*Surface Book bricked after a shoddily-tested Windows Update corrupts OS and causes system to be stuck in a bluescreen loop*
"My Mac can't do that"
"My Mac can't do that"
It shows weakness to bash other products by comparing. Apple did the same in the past but with that at least with a bit of humor.
Great analysis. I'd never realized it until now. I suppose Cars are more 'personable' and aren't viewed as just getting you from point A to point B. Especially American culture, which is why our public transit situation is deplorable compared to other parts of the world (though size of the country also influences both private and public transportation). Hmm, maybe that's why Apple's getting into the car business.
Watched the Surface Book ad and thought "I guess they've got a point..." and then the Retina MacBook Pro ad and thought "No, I made the right choice."
Totally agree. I can't stand even seeing dust and other smudges that somehow find their way onto my rMBP screen. Frankly, I dislike having to clean my iPad Air screen after my kids get their not-quite-clean hands on it.
And I'll state what I have over and again, that touch input on a vertical screen when your hands are naturally doing input on a keyboard in the horizontal plane, makes ZERO sense and is just not comfortable or manageable for anything other than quick pointing or cursor moving - things that you can do faster and more ergonomically by using a trackpad. I get that trackpads and Windows hardware have been anything but smooth or useful, which is likely part of the reason why MS moved on to screen input, and because they needed something to show they were following the trend of touchscreen devices.
I think it would've been more effective if they used past tense.... "I just couldn't do on my Mac".
But using the same tune? That's lame.
But using the same tune? That's lame.
Things a Mac Just Can't Do? I find this laughable since I had to return my Surface Pro 4 after two versions that were littered with bugs that made both unreliable to use for work related tasks. I know this isn't the SurfaceBook, but they are close enough related to draw parallels.
No thanks Microsoft. You'd think your Surface Pro by generation 4 would be a better experience. Mac just doesn't have these issues and therefore for me their products are just so much superior.
No thanks Microsoft. You'd think your Surface Pro by generation 4 would be a better experience. Mac just doesn't have these issues and therefore for me their products are just so much superior.
I think thats why the Pencil isn't included with iPad Pro. It's a niche use-case.
Couldn't agree more. I was interested in Windows 10: It looked like Microsoft had fixed Windows 8 and made quite a good product. Then one of my friends started using a Windows PC (he normally runs Debian) for university, and told me about how half-finished a product it is: There are still two settings programs: Control Panel and Settings. There are two browsers: IE and Edge. There are two UIs - a scroll bar or radio button doesn't look the same across the system. The icons across the system aren't the same. All my curiosity and desire to use Window 10 faded.
Why they couldn't go in and fix this, I don't know. Give all standard UI elements the "modern" look. Create new icons. Move every system control into the shiny new Settings app. Give the OS some polish, Microsoft, for goodness sake!
What does being "professional" even mean to you? Some people don't mind using all available tools to get what they want done. There's even a pen. So, it's versatile and gives users options which some "professionals" may appreciate.
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Judging a book by its cover...literally.
No matter how many resources MS pours into Windows it still has the most tiny damn font at high resolution. Turn on the scaling and see how the OS wasn't built to support scaling.
The tiny targets and font make it miserable to use.
The tiny targets and font make it miserable to use.
What exactly are you comparing it to? In iPod touch, iPhone, Apple watch, iPad mini?
Cause its not an Apple laptop....
Oh I agree with everything and more. I run it on a desktop. That's another thing my Mac doesn't need: 2 completely different looking control panels!!
Sorry but the whole fingerprints and dirty screen argument is BS. I have not heard anyone complain about fingerprints on a touch device like the iPad or iPhone. How could that ever be a bigger problem for a MacBook?
do you really want to switch and let MS and their advertising pals get all sorts of lovely data on you? Data that you can't stop them getting?
do you really want to see Ads on the device lock screen?
do you want to lose control over updates? You will have them forced on you no matter how bad they are.
etc etc etc
If so, you will be more than welcome on Planet Microsoft.
I came to the Apple world to escape Microsoft.
Pointing out the music of all things? Your clickbait is showing.